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How can Stephen Jones have Lewis Moody as one of his Test certainties? He missed four tackles in the first six minutes against Taranaki, is next to useless on the floor and gives away stupid penalties. He is clearly a very average No 7. Neil Back and Martyn Williams are far superior — Back is simply the best No 6 there has ever been. I cannot see where you are coming from.

James Jones, via e-mail

Stephen Jones trots out the old mantra about Pacific Islanders playing for the All Blacks, citing among others the Auckland-born Michael Jones. None of John Barnes, Nasser Hussain, Douglas Jardine and Devon Malcolm was born in England. Players should be free to represent the country they feel allegiance to, no matter where they were born. Jones’s views belong to the Dark Ages.